On November 13, 2025, Laney College athletic director and former football coach John Beam -- widely known from Netflix's 'Last Chance U' -- was shot at the Laney Fieldhouse in Oakland at approximately 11:53 AM PST. The Peralta Community College District issued an active shooter emergency alert at 12:16 PM PST, more than 20 minutes after the shooting, prompting faculty and staff to later question what could have happened in those 20 minutes. Beam died the following morning; suspect Cedric Irving Jr., 27, was arrested at a San Leandro BART station early on November 14.
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Campus Alert Archive. "Laney College: Athletic director fatally shot at the fieldhouse; suspect arrested the next morning." Incident of November 13, 2025. Added May 2026; last updated August 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/laney-college-john-beam-shooting-2025-11-13/
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